Archive for the ‘rafael’ Category

In The Bay Area Tonight? Come Find Us At The New Media Summit & Celebration!

The New Media Summit and Celebration, presented by Netroots Nation and the Netroots Arts and Education Initiative, happens today at the Bently Reserve, The summit is sold out, but there are still tickets available for the evening celebration, where our founder Mike Grishaver may even give out some free pro SocialSite accounts to select progressive [...]

Connecting to a smart audience with SocialSite

Yet another great website has started using SocialSite!
OK, first - you might not have checked out FORA.tv yet, so if you have some free time please just click that link there and come back after you’ve explored a bit. It will take a bit to get decent taste, though, so if you want to wait [...]

On Being A Librarian in the Web Age

I really dig the range of groups and people that use SocialSite widgets. On my last post I wrote about the Sacramento Kings, and the latest site to come to my attention seems (granted, in a shallow, stereotypical kind of way) the exact opposite: civilibrarian.com. From jocks to nerds, everyone loves SocialSite!
Written by Chris Freeman, [...]

Sacramento Kings: I Will Resist Basketball Metaphors

But I can’t stop myself: this widget is a slam dunk!
I’ll hold back now.
Seriously, though, what a widget.
The Kings have taken their purple-and-white colors and stuck them on one of our SocialSite Widgets, and I think the result is outstanding. The Kings are definitely ahead of the pack here (kind of a basketball [...]

The Daily Galaxy Uses SocialSite to Bring News From Planet Earth… And Beyond

Scientists have discovered hundreds of Earths, our brains have a “memory switch”, DNA encryption will save our secrets and pollution-fighting Robo Fish will save the oceans.
That’s just today’s news on The Daily Galaxy .
Covering the awesomest cutting-edge science clearly and with a great dose of enthusiasm, this awesome blog custom-made themselves one of our [...]

ABC News Bring Themselves Into the Social Web With SocialSite

During President Obama’s first address to a joint session of Congress, ABC News featured our SocialSite system on their main and politics pages. During the historic address, which dealt primarily with Obama’s plans to deal with the current economic crisis, a prominent SocialSite widget followed all the Twittering about the speech. We think this shows [...]

The Cool Kids Use SocialSite from Thingfo

We’ve gotten a lot of pings about the amazingly awesome 24HoursAtSundance, which featured Thingfo widgets for the whole contest as well as for Asthon Kutcher, Kevin Rose, Irina Slutsky, Cj Peters, Meghan Asha, Matt Marshall & Shira Lazar to name, oh…. all the web luminaries involved in that event.  Speaking of web luminaries, I thought I’d [...]

Barack Obama Inauguration Widget from SocialSite

Greetings web2.0 widget fans!
We’ve got a great new badge available today that taps into the immense excitement building up to Barack Obama’s inauguration.
“A New Birth of Freedom”, as it’s named, falls on January 20th, and our Inauguration widget will happily track the Web’s excitement over the historic event.
SocialSite: Barack Obama Inauguration 2009 Widget follows the [...]

Another Voice for Thingfo

Hi, allow me to introduce myself. I’m Rafael, and you’ll be hearing a lot from me. As Thingfo’s new Director of Social Marketing I’ll be blogging and twittering about all things Thingfo, because I care.  Pleased to meet you.
I will use this space to explore all the exciting developments underway at Thingfo as we move [...]